bshpilot wrote:Jim Shoe wrote:
I had a friend several years ago that wanted to fly commercial passenger planes. But he was competing with other pilots that had many more flight hours. So he took a job flying commercial cargo planes to build up his hours. They fly at night - all night. Amazon has a huge warehouse at the airport in Louisville, KY. and their own runways and parking areas. Other places around the country as well. All Amazon packages are bar coded and run through a fully automated sorting facility. While the pilots are sleeping, the warehouse moves the packages from their origin to a plane headed for their destination. The next night, my friend hopped into a loaded plane and flew to the next stop. All the packages that were as close to their final destinations as possible were separated and loaded onto big trucks and delivered to their final warehouse stop. Then out to the familiar brown UPS delivery trucks.
I've seen videos of the packages being sorted in the warehouses. They're moving so fast that you can't even see the bar codes go by. But the machines can.
please show where you learned that they have their own air fleet & runways ! btw they do not !
what you speak of is UPS & FedEx and loading & sorting operations & transportation, NOT amazon's.
Amazon only has inventory/fulfillment centers.
Jim Shoe wrote:
I had a friend several years ago that wanted to fly commercial passenger planes. But he was competing with other pilots that had many more flight hours. So he took a job flying commercial cargo planes to build up his hours. They fly at night - all night. Amazon has a huge warehouse at the airport in Louisville, KY. and their own runways and parking areas. Other places around the country as well. All Amazon packages are bar coded and run through a fully automated sorting facility. While the pilots are sleeping, the warehouse moves the packages from their origin to a plane headed for their destination. The next night, my friend hopped into a loaded plane and flew to the next stop. All the packages that were as close to their final destinations as possible were separated and loaded onto big trucks and delivered to their final warehouse stop. Then out to the familiar brown UPS delivery trucks.
I've seen videos of the packages being sorted in the warehouses. They're moving so fast that you can't even see the bar codes go by. But the machines can.
Jim Shoe wrote:
I had a friend several years ago that wanted to fly commercial passenger planes. But he was competing with other pilots that had many more flight hours. So he took a job flying commercial cargo planes to build up his hours. They fly at night - all night. Amazon has a huge warehouse at the airport in Louisville, KY. and their own runways and parking areas. Other places around the country as well. All Amazon packages are bar coded and run through a fully automated sorting facility. While the pilots are sleeping, the warehouse moves the packages from their origin to a plane headed for their destination. The next night, my friend hopped into a loaded plane and flew to the next stop. All the packages that were as close to their final destinations as possible were separated and loaded onto big trucks and delivered to their final warehouse stop. Then out to the familiar brown UPS delivery trucks.
I've seen videos of the packages being sorted in the warehouses. They're moving so fast that you can't even see the bar codes go by. But the machines can.
bshpilot wrote:CavemanCharlie wrote:
I heard a man give a talk once that said the reason this sort of stuff works so well is because the big shipping cooperation's like UPS are really the ones doing the work. You think you are buying from Amazon but they are really just the people handling you order and taking your money. UPS has a big giant facility somewhere that has it's own airport and 100's of acres of where houses. When you place your order with Amazon it instantly goes to them and the put it on the plane right away. There is no Amazon where house. I'll see if I can find the talk and post it here but, it may take me some time. The man who did the talk did it in a humorous way telling the story that the people in the funny little brown shorts (UPS shorts) are the ones doing everything.
caveman -
i don't know who gave that talk but they couldn't have been more off base ! Amazon absolutely DOES have warehouses....and they aren't necessarily close to any major airports...they are strategically placed.
the DO leverage other logistics specialist like UPS, FedEx of course.
for a list of Amazon Warehouses (aka fulfillment centers) - http://www.mwpvl.com/html/amazon_com.html
monkey44 wrote:WyoTraveler wrote:
Being rural we buy almost everything on the internet. Amazon is getting faster but still takes them the 7 days by the time they get the stuff on the stage coach headed to NW Wyo. Plus they have to feed the horses before they leave.
That's your mistake, using the stage coach. Have you never heard of Pony Express.
CavemanCharlie wrote:
I heard a man give a talk once that said the reason this sort of stuff works so well is because the big shipping cooperation's like UPS are really the ones doing the work. You think you are buying from Amazon but they are really just the people handling you order and taking your money. UPS has a big giant facility somewhere that has it's own airport and 100's of acres of where houses. When you place your order with Amazon it instantly goes to them and the put it on the plane right away. There is no Amazon where house. I'll see if I can find the talk and post it here but, it may take me some time. The man who did the talk did it in a humorous way telling the story that the people in the funny little brown shorts (UPS shorts) are the ones doing everything.
Belgique wrote:antiquedrose wrote:
To be sure you get your overnight or two day shipping, shoppers must pay the fee charged for one day shipping if they do not have a Poat Office box at their home.
We're rural and will never have a PO Box on the road. With Amazon using 'Smart Post', their hand off system to the PO, we are assured confusion and hit and miss deliveries, depending if they punt the package to the PO, which has become increasingly common. That's the service with the annual Prime Membership fee.
The Prime Membership is almost useless for us rural folk.
This. I love Prime and use it too much. But, this hand off to the USPS is a loser. They don't tell you they are going to do that and in many CG's I use, USPS doesn't deliver but UPS does. I never get my stuff. They refund me without issue but I want my stuff. Been in a contest with Amazon execs on this for 2 months. If I can opt out of the USPS, I'd be happy.
